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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 2022

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anna said: " Second Review
Reading this book for the second time was surely a very different experience, but certainly not a worse one. I explored and discovered a lot of details and character traits that I hadn't noticed before. My opinions about certain charcact Second Review
Reading this book for the second time was surely a very different experience, but certainly not a worse one. I explored and discovered a lot of details and character traits that I hadn't noticed before. My opinions about certain charcacters have changed. Some for the worse, some for the better. I definitely matured ever since the first time I read this and it was very interesting to experience my thoughts and opinions about the character's actions changing.

First Review
Starting this book, I already had very high hopes and I was very excited to begin. And when I finally started, I was still excited. In the middle, I was still excited and towards the very end, I was still filled with excitement about this book. This book was on my mind all the time whilst reading it and now, after finishing it, it still is.

Starting off, the writing was absolutely brilliant. She manages to make the story so accecable, which I didn't expect. Talking about the story, there is barely any plot. That however didn't bother me at all. There is one plot (the murder and the time after that), and the rest of the book exists of all these little events in the book that are barely connected to one another, but they are so entertaining.

This book is all about the characters. There are six main characters (Richard, Henry, Francis, Camila, Charles and Bunny) and these characters make the story. They aren't particularly good people, but I can't call them bad people either. Some of them deserved better even in my opinion. The characters feel very real. In the real world people also aren't just 'good' or 'bad'. And yes, I recognize that they killed their friend and they were even quite impatient about finally doing it. About Bunny, I think he is the most terrible and annoying person I've ever read about. That, because he feels like a real person that I could know.

The ending of the book was shocking and everything totally escalated, and then it was over. There was an epilogue and that was it. I love the epilogue and especially Francis' part made me a little sad, but what made me the most sad is that it was over. I am offically in love with this book and it could have been endless to me. This was amazing. Thank you Donna Tartt. ...more "

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